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Clouds, The Collaborative Photo Mosiac
jaric writes "Over at peffis.com users post their cell phone photos to a shared photo blog. The creator of the open source site now has invented what he calls Clouds. It is a combination of all the posted photos into one cloud, or mosaic. The result is quite fascinating. You can see the current cloud."
This site looks like a meltdown waiting to happen...
Current cloud temporary mirror. Be aware that this won't update hourly as the site one does...
Nothing like taking a small image-based site and exposing it to a slashdotting, huh?
...It almost looks like someone spent an hour making a website and 20 minutes in photoshop and went live with it. Sorta neat lookin' but hardly decent /. material...(IMHO of course)
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You can see the current cloud.
Not any more you can't. The Slashdot effect: It's like night-time, but for web servers!
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Mirror: 5light.com/cloud.jpg
I also am missing the point here. Is this generated with some really cool function-based language? Is it being done on a beowulf cluster of Sony-Ericssons? I see about 30 photos slapped together with some alpha channels... ummm... GREAT! Now, I'm going to go read the white pages cover to cover, because it's more interesting.
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You can see the current cloud.
No, no I don't think we can. Unless the current cloud looks a little something like a "Request to server timed out" window.
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/usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/webcollage - comes with xscreensaver. Written in perl, easy enough to give it new methids to find photos.
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1.) Thanks for the mirror. The cloud image wasn't so special, but it was nice to see it...
2.) Why on EARTH (or off it) would you use the domain "www.wetsexygirl.com" only for mirroring an image for a /. story?!?! Yeah, so I'm a horn-dog and checked out the top of the domain, and what did I find?:
No offense, but man, that is just a tease...Don't tease us with "wetsexygirl.com" unless you are going to give us a Wet, Sexy Girl or two or ten or hundred...yes I have karma to burn and this OT, so mod me down if you please...
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My God, it's full of crap!
That is, when it's not timing out from too many requests..
Come on, confess.
There are no boobies in the mosaic, people. Nothing to see here.
That little boy is shooting that woman!
Looking at these pictures, they all look like they were taken with a 2+ megapixel camera. I've seen pics from a dozen camera phones, none of them were this good. What's the real source of these pictures?
It might be nice if the cloud had more pcitures in it. As it is, it's not much of a mosaic. According to Dictionary.com, a Mosaic is:
# A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.
I don't think it's much of a mosaic, as it doesn't form a large picture. I just don't get it.
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bye
Mark
Somebody go find an egg timer. As a requiem, we really should record the time it takes for the Cloud to be astroturfed, spammed, p0rned, and otherwise made to resemble the online equivalent of a univeristy-district telephone pole.
Requiescat In Pace, Nebula.
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For those of you that haven't seen it:
http://www.edit.ne.jp/~katsu/image/cloud.jpg
My girlfriend participates in something a little more structured than this, but similar. Sito has a number of projects such as (descriptions taken from Sito) -
Hygrid: "This collaborative art project has been evolving since December 1995. The idea behind this project is to create a "hyperlinked grid of visually interlocked images". Each square on the grid is a small image created by a participating artist. Each square is adjacent to another artist's square in the structure, appearing on the top, right, bottom or left side."
Gridcosm: "Gridcosm is a collaborative art project in which artists from around the world contribute images to a compounding series of graphical squares."
Those are the two most active and interesting ones. For those that enjoy recursive acronyms, you'll definitely like Gridcosm (like a recursive acronym.. FOR YOUR MIND). Some of the levels can be outright beautiful, some are crappy.
The way it works is this: after having an account, you "reserve" a piece to work on. You have a set time limit to turn your piece in before somebody else gets it. As an example -- and since she reads Slashdot, she's gonna kill my ass -- you can also view individual pieces and jump from there.
The most interesting behavior I've seen, though, is that work breeds work -- when one or a few people decide to bounce in, the entire community picks up, contributing to an almost organic growth and decline of the various levels and sub-projects.
This cloud thing is just asking to end up where you get just enough opacity on a layer to recognize a boob, but it fades into a Peugot before the nipple!
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Who would of though chaos theory at its best..
a collection of random images, arranged and displayed and it looks exactly like a 404.
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